Charles Sumner's speech criticizing the Kansas-Nebraska Act, delivered in 1856, led to significant political and social repercussions. His vehement condemnation of the Act, particularly its implications for the expansion of slavery, galvanized anti-slavery sentiments and intensified the sectional conflict between the North and South. The speech also prompted a violent reaction; Sumner was physically assaulted by Congressman Preston Brooks on the Senate floor, an event that further polarized the nation and symbolized the deepening rift over slavery. This incident heightened tensions leading up to the Civil War.
Brooks beat Summers with a cane after Summers criticized slave owners, supporters of slaves, and Preston's cousin. It took Summers months to recover.
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Charles Summers was born in 1825.
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Charles Russel Summers has written: 'Methods of approximating probabilities ..' -- subject(s): Probabilities
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E. W. Summers has written: 'This never happened' -- subject(s): Fiction, Women murderers
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Charles Summers
Charles Sumner was a prominent abolitionist senator who vehemently opposed the expansion of slavery into Kansas, particularly in the context of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. His passionate speeches, including the famous "Crime Against Kansas," criticized pro-slavery forces and their violence in the territory, which heightened tensions between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions. Sumner's rhetoric and his subsequent caning by Congressman Preston Brooks exemplified the deep divisions within the nation over slavery, contributing to the conflict that ultimately erupted into the Civil War. His views galvanized anti-slavery sentiment and intensified the violent struggles in Kansas, known as "Bleeding Kansas."
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But Summers, who will return to his teaching job at Harvard University by the end of the year, has been criticized by some liberal Democrats as too close to Wall Street. There were also a number of reports of clashes on the economic team within the White House.